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The Sth Annual Convention of the 
Women’s Christian ‘Temperance Union 
of Arkansas, will be held at Hazen, 
the First Wednesday in May, 1887. 


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STATE OF ARKANSAS, 


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PRESIDENT. 
Mrs. LYDIA M. CHACE, Helena. 


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, 
Mrs. I. N. DUNLAP, Hazen. 


RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Mrs. E. R. COLWELL, Little Rock. 


TREASURER. 
Mrs. MARY A. CORNELIUS, Little Rock. 





VICE-PRESIDENTS OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. 





First Congressional District—Mrs. O. B. Rotiwaagr, Forrest City. 
Second Congressional District—Mrs. E. M. McGauauey, Pine Bluff. 
Third Congressional District—Mrs. A. R. Winrrevp, Little Rock. 
Fourth Congressional District—Mrs. W. H. Sarpitry, Van Buren. 


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VICE-PRESIDENTS OF COUNTIES. 


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Olay oven nan ee ee tenes Mus. Ry Goo BRivtagn...cea ese Rector. 

Carroll acsine rem carats Mrs. EMMA CLAFFLIN.....2.....-; Eureka Springs 
OHICOb eres ict niein alin Bia oa ats te aie a esctatg's vraa/ bie peta bial timate nee et oe ae 
Glarky ayteticie or mimey pees Mrs. 'C.'C. HENDERSON |.22, 02 03 .. Arkadelphia. 
Glebnrne tis ovens Mus: ( BOLGERS, 23.2 4-0- eee ee Magnolia. 
CONWAY err. etree antes Mrs.'J. MM. Hart) ics. eeeere Morrilton. 
Craisheadine acess. Mrs...G. FERIA RSON.29 » neato ies Jonesboro. 
Crittemd emia oie inte che cee sical Vika 5 Sie een eae 
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DEL AS owrel. oa ene ereents ate Mrs. Many EH.) DA YLORV, oe eseretee Princeton. 
DYGWira tne ern. Mrs. Marti—e WELSH............. Monticello. 
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Faulknerton. 2. oom Mors. C. Io. COx. 2 cere tetera saa Conway. 

Aran Tee ere eee or Mrs. RICHARD BERRY 2.2. se ee Ozark. 

Bultange eres va cote sere Mrs. Kate J. PHILLIPS? sence ces Salem. 

ASTORT Taare Gig chee ae Mrs. . MARY GOODSON 2... ene eos Gainesville. 
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FRO WAT 255 ici eae ole rere wie siete slthte x din oy tatade, ots eta cadena Ds Pre tate Tia ae a ls' «eee 
Independence.......... Mrs; MARY .wA.NEIn sae eile ae Batesville. 
SONUSON es aie eee ee Mrs. B. P. McKENNON ....... .... Clarksville. 

el ACEBOM clas s.c'satee  oies-2 Mas:) Ho MicGRENADE Ses tee ....Jdacksonport. 


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PSOUANEN et Sitios A's oa ss Mrs. M. E. CasTLEBERRY ........: Booneville. 
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VEST IOV ie akin soso oa DMRS. LO DARKER GE ces savescceces Yellville. 
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PONT Maen. os cca en MRS NEUTER WAR Doce. clolerdeats ass Clarendon. 

BA LSSISHUD Pee ex o's 2 2 s'e ss MiRGee Lise NL NOM RIGH.. ote an satt. Osceola. 
Sern nec «see VERS. Hy We) HAYSs.. occu «tleweast Prescott. 
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CUIVEIGN:  ne e MURS a VLA RSH eae ou vis cr trale cvetate ie a0 Camden. 
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ICTS etc. Js a slo on & INES ae on WUE LEUNG ele cle e canis 008 <r Harrisburg. 
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POD GMI cis ac oi. Sie 506 fens WEP mOe Rn CREE Lagets avers sfed atateiaie dees Atkins, 

1g We! Ae oe Sh IVES av FAS ELA RTS. ite a'm oho ccon ers) Hazen. 

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SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF WORK. 


On Temperance Literature—Mrs. E. H. Thompson, Little Rock. 
On Juvenile Work—Mrs. Rich, Rogers. 

On Sunday School Work—Mrs. George Pearson, Forrest City. 
On Legislative Work—Mrs. R. A. Turner, Van Buren. 
Evangelistic—Mrs. Beulah Carlisle, Searcy. 

On Influencing the Press—Miss L. A. Eldridge, Beebe. 

On Prison and Jail Work—Mrs. FE. R. Colwell, Little Rock. 
Social Purity and Work for Reformed Men—Mrs. M. FE. Taylor, Princeton, 
On Work Among the Colored People—Mrs. O. E. Curtis, Hazen. 
On Franchise—Mrs. Myra Vaughan, Little Rock. 

On Hygiene and Heredity—Mrs. T. A. Dunlap, Hazen. 

On Scientifie Instruction—Mrs. 8S. R. Hart, Hazen. 

On Flower Mission—Miss Ronie Curtis, Hazen. 

On Unfermented Wine—Mrs. 8S. B. May, Ciarksville. 

On Sabbath Observance—Miss Cordie C. Gill, Atkins. | 

On Union Signal—Mrs. Thompson, Little Rock. 

Young Woman’s Work—Miss Edith O. Tansel, Paragold. 
Conference with Influential Bodies—L. M. Chace, Helena. 
Work Among Foreigners, Mrs. Harriet Cheaney, Judsonia. 


ADVISORY COMMIITEE. 


Mase Dri, DODGE Ves tei e sc cicis gana olere tele ara hetele cs ete at ctet een eee Little Rock.. 


Mis.) JUDGRULURNER. +. s esulcet te 1 alte bi oo bigbauera stern eee ate oat Lae Van Buren.. 
WES DD RG EA MRS Sa els aF Gare ashe, othe, Wile ie, aes ajieie ote direc tale oe a Role a ee Wicherville.. 
Bu BCR dr! Ped Ob 5: obey Ue RMI OUAR I Ad Pu All gL ok Little Rock. 
Mas. DRS MGA LAONIE es pic's wie hale cool cies toel (ent e eteeme anan Little Rock.. 
MRS. AE MONSORAG ait: wis t's irata'dle valeiocetanis ce eee umn CnS A vidi wale cre Carlisle. ; 
MRS) NOASOR vA Se 55 o!6 Osim 1) Siete jaune foe tale oles eae Little Rock. 
MRS. De SWIEN BIER D soso 6 0 6 aed seco eco ete eben eae Ene eee ete ane Little Rock.. 


Mrs. J UDG Re CLGRE Te oe oes bee ln oe eieteretene eee Little Rock. 


LIST OF WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNIONS. 


Names. Presidents. Cor. Sec. 
Witla Mocks sc. s. is 5/0 t) Mrs. EP A Thompson. sa. Miss A. G. Farr. 
AAPL VIGE LG te a's 5a. 6 ole 56 irae? Cre LOONEY s oe hte sit «er. 4 Mrs. Watson. 

PL AIMEE a4, wie S = che 4 MTS ASOITOY. warercitiscere eects <’sto-4 Miss Minnie Gill. 
SOG DGMETER sc a)is bere eae cis Mrs: Bhebeibiilss 7s see... 2: Mrs. Julia A. Clark. 
MOOT) Waki ike dares a's ss IM Parr Ay plume y iL bits bea ae ene vies Mrs. B. R. Farron. 
ELAZCUMMM ee v.ocls sks vss VTS Aa Keir artec deste. ste Mrs. O. E. Curtis. 
OU 0 Ue Mrs..beaboMeKennon es. 0.5). Miss Annie Powers. 
TOP OT IEBIS © oo s'e lie howls » Mrs. Annie lL. Harris..:.....Mrs,;C. W. Strand. 
erUrememeprings.as..2. Mrs. CnC Cook. i100 ea cele Mrs. Sarah A. Case. 
OTT CREM OLEY 4 5 2 5/0. 6 4 \e Mirae Mee tlLar DOT, sili nes, «gi Mrs. W. M. Flowes. 
PUUSSaRVANE Co. oe. wae Mrs. Olive P. Haney......... Mrs. M. M. Pruitt. 
PAVE AGO oss <'s's 0:6 © Mres iH. Dy McKennon.:..... 
Lipaages |) 10h ea Mrs. Mattie Crawford........ Mrs. H. O. Houston. 
PLUG Beets ies sce ous Mirselia Ae NEGOUIGY eats tesa 9 Mrs. A. L. Blackwood 
RU LCR MRREIS fibers late ons < cies « WWirssel risk USL tee fete aed Mrs. D. W. White. 
Va oo ee NPS eR eACELU ENON sist cats 2 Mrs. R. M Thomas. 
WAY PI odes oe EVE TA PITCOe rae ies ersata ae ici ete Miss Minnie Koonce 
ING WV PR Uitel s 5.6 cc pas e's a's’ Mise Lre.ONGSs acre: ae Snnee 
RICATOMMES. cis lene 5 see's s Miss Sue Crowes i... Sirs: Mii I> Yarnell: 
belay clu 1a fq: pe aR Mrs. Lou A. Hotehkiss....... Mrs. Young. 
VLOUMGEHIOs sass oe se MTs VGCA TO Wels. cates atiss s 
PPATOMIIOUG, 4's 6s ess 
GL LORIN PA y's e n'e'¥! «os IMTS DA ELI ar i esate s Mrs. J. D. Millner. 
EEG Mrs Ag Ge Bardia eon tse. 


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MORNING SESSION. 


The eighth annual State Convention of the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance Union assembled in the Methodist 
Church South, Beebe, May 12, 1886. 

Devotional exercises were led by Miss I. C. DeVelling, the 
State Organizer. 

The President, Mrs. Lydia M. Chace, called the Conven- 
tion to order and spoke briefly. 

By request of the Convention the President appointed the 
following committees: 

On Credentials.—Mrs. Julia A. Clark, Mrs. Mary McIn- 
tosh, Beebe. 

Ox Finance.—Mrs. T. A. Dunlap, Hazen; Mrs. M. M. 
Pruitt, Russellville; Mrs. J. S. Ward, Beebe. 

On Resolutions.—Mrs. R. L. Dodge, Little Rock; Mrs. 
Olive E. Curtis, Hazen; Mrs. D. L. Austin, Judsonia; Mrs. E. 
W. Harper, Forrest City; Mrs. W. H. H. Shibley, Van Buren. 
The Rev. R. W. Bange of Texas was then introduced to 
the Convention and at the President’s request led in prayer; 
after which rules to govern the Convention were read and 
adopted. 


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The minutes of the Executive Committee were read and 
approved. 


Short and telling speeches on the methods of obtaining 
Prohibition were made by Col. W. P. Grace, President of the 
Prohibition Alliance, and Rev. J. M. Clayton, editor of the 
Southern Rising Wave. 

The President called attention to the Temperance litera- 
ture in charge of Mrs. Emma Thompson. 


Mrs. Fannie Suddarth of Mt. Vernon was introduced to 
the Convention, and the noon hour of prayer having arrived, 


led the devotions, and the benediction was pronounced by 
Revit Miri. 


AFTERNOON SESSION,_ 


At 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Fannie E. Suddarth conducted the 
devotional exercises. 


The minutes were read and approved. 


Fifteen minutes were given to asking and answering ques- 
tions as to the best methods of petitioning against saloons, and 
much valuable information on the subject was elicited from 
Col. Grace, who had lately been engaged in that kind of effort. 


The report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and 
accepted. (See Appendix). 


A resolution by Mrs. M. A. Cornelius, that the Executive 
Committee of the W. C. T. U. be appointed to confer with the 
Executive Committee of the Prohibition Alliance in regard to 
printing the Digest of Temperance Laws prepared by Col. 
Grace with power to act. Adopted. 


The Treasurer's Report was read and received. 
The report of the Superintendent on Influencing the 
Press, including the response of the Arkansas Press Associa- 


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tion to the paper which she sent to it, was read, and elicited 
much enthusiasm, and it was voted that the gist of the report 
_ be printed in the minutes. (See Appendix.) 


A delegation from Hazen having been welcomed by the 
Convention, the session closed with prayer by Rev. J. M. Clay- 
ton and benediction by Rev. G. M. Hill. 





NIGHT SESSION: 


7:30 Convention reassembled. 
Mrs. Cornelius conducted the devotional exercises. 


Miss I. C. DeVelling gave an inspiring report of her work 
in the State; after which she presented the badge of White 
Ribbon to the Union, also two silver-plated collection plates, 
from the Convention to the M. E. Church South, of Beebe. 


This was followed by the President’s Address; after which 
Mrs. M. S. Wells of Tennessee was introduced and madea 
few remarks on the needs of the colored people. 


Little Miss Ione Barber recited ‘‘ The Collection” very 
prettily. 


The Temperance Doxology was sung, and the benediction 
was pronounced by Rev. J. M. Clayton. 


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PRESIDENTS ADD EESs: 


Dear Sisters and Co-Laborers: 


Again in the genial spring time, when all nature is putting 
on her beautiful dress, we have come to our annual feast, and 
can we not adopt as God’s truth to us in the past, the language 
of the hymn: 

“Through many dangers, toils and snarnes, 
We have already come; 

’'Tis grace has brought us safe thus far, 
And grace will lead us home.” 

And so let us go forward in this blessed work which in its 
outreaching influence is encircling the world with the golden 
chain of light and love; binding together the woman of all 
lands in one united effort to overthrow the evils, which, as 
unrelenting tyrants, are bearing down to eternal ruin all classes 
and nations of people. How true that sorrow and need make 
all the world akin. 


I can extend to you alla cordial greeting to the Convention 
and as helpers hail your presence here as representatives of 
the many left behind, just as noble, just as earnest. Having 
had the privilege of mingling with many of you in your homes, 
joys, and trials, successes, and failures, I rejoice thus to meet 
you face to face and bid you welcome. 


And now upon our eighth birthday, it is well for us to take 
a little note of the steps of time. There had been some few 
earnest workers who had brought the subject in the interest of 
which we have met to-day, before the people for many years, 
but the first united effort for the real and desired end, 
“Prohibition of the liquor traffic,” was made at Searcy seven 
‘years ago. A few timid women met there in answer to a call 
for a meeting to organize a State Union auxiliary to the 


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National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Mary 
M. Clardy, a most untiring and evangelical friend of the cause, 
was prime mover in this. 


She had organized several local Unions, as she had come 
from Missouri by invitation to lecture and organize, and to her 
‘we are much indebted for the fruits we enjoy to-day—fruit sown 
amid much prejudice and opposition. I would forget as I 
freely forgive all the scorn and contempt some of us had to 
bear then, and I rejoice as I see and feel this wondrous change. 
I might, also, speak of the kindly words and faithful champion- 
ship of some of the brothers at that time, a few of whom we ° 
welcome to-day. Nobly have they stood by our side and come 
to our aid. 


Then, but very little of the area of the State was free 
from the licensed saloon—to-day nearly one half is legally free 
from this open curse—then, the subject was ignored by many 
and considered untenable by others who really wished it 
success; to-day it has warm advocates in the church who fear 
not to come out boldly on the side of right. And among our 
‘statesmen and legislators there has been an advance in better 
protection for the home. That the provisions for this protection 
are ignored and treated with disregard by some of those who 
hold responsible offices in the State is a matter too plain and 
public to be ignored or passed over. The calling of mass 
meetings to unite in public expressions on the subject, that 
moral sentiment may be crystalized into legal power at the 
ballot-box, is evidence that the people’ are not ignorant or 
careless of their rights when lawfully expressed. 


Like the healing leaves of the Tree of Life, which the 
beloved disciple saw, so has the quiet influence of the different 
departments of the W. C. T. U. spread from year to year, and 
thus we can rejoice in the part we have been privileged to share 
in this blessed change. True, we have not gained in members 
as many as we expected, neither have the Local Unions, which 


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have been organized, been as permanent, as was fondly hoped’ 
in its early days, but none of the efforts of earnest, praving,. 
Christian women have been in vain. 


As we come nearer to our present time, our dear Miss De- 
Velling’s faithtul, earnest labors of last year gave promise of a 
cheering future, but many of the bright buds withered under 
the chilling influence of surroundings, while several have. 
bloomed and are bearing fruit which cheers our hearts to-day. 
The great need everywhere is for more women interested in. 
this cause, more women who hear and obey the Master’s call, 
“Go work in my vineyard.” So fully does Mrs. Bryce,. 
Alabama’s noble President, express my feelings that I quote 
from her with a change of State. ‘I wish that every gifted, 
intellectual woman of Arkansas would joinus We want the 
spare moments of the busy-headed workers, who by their pens. 
can do us much good. This is a large field of usefulness, and. 
every earnest woman in the cause can find scope for her talents. 
To the women of high social position, we say, ‘Come, give 
us your influence,’ and to you, active, busy, Christian women 
who are working for the heathen in your Missionary societies, 
we implore you not to overlook the suffering ones at your very 
doors. We beg you to unite with us in endeavoring to remove 
the dram-shop from our streets, the accursed dram-shop; the 
cause of so much misery and vice, and aid us in educating the 
children of the rich and poor alike, to abstain from things that 
ruin their bodies and destroy their souls. If every woman in 
the State would exert herself in behalf of this great cause, 
would connect herself with this organization and work for it as. 
she ought to do, what an irresistible impulse would be imparted 
to the temperance movement in Arkansas! Estimate, if you 
can; the power of an organization composed of every mother, 
wife, and daughter, working in behalf of purity and sobriety. 
How long do you suppose would the supporters of the liquor 
traffic be able to withstand such influence ?” 


Viewed in this light what a grave responsibility is resting 
upon the women of our country. I am glad to say that in many 


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-of the nineteen departments there-has been much effectual 
work done. But I fear our faithful Superintendent of Literature 
-has not received the encouragement from the Unions she 
deserves. She has labored faithfully from the first, but this 
year under the shadow of bereavement which calls for special 
sympathy from us. Dear sisters, if we work wisely, we must 
avail ourselves of the literature which is especially prepared for 
‘us and thus adapted to our needs. The Union Signal comes 
freighted with reports from all the sisterhood, giving the benefits 
of work accomplished, and thus inciting to more diligence, 
placing within our reach, at small cost, the best thoughts of 
the best minds. As our National organ, at the small expense 
it is now offered, the most of us should certainly have it in our 
households. The responsive readings are a mine of instruction 
‘which none of us can afford to neglect. 


In connection with this, I would mention the Press 
Department, which is an important factor in reaching the 
people. Our present Superintendent has brought our cause to 
the notice of very many of the editors and from them received 
kind responses and offers of space. Many of these offers have 
not been available from the difficulty of getting them filled 
even with clippings. I trust we shall not have this difficulty 
the coming year. Think how many you can reach in the 
county paper, who, otherwise, would not read anything on the 
subject. One plan which has proved successful is, for the 
young women to make “clippings” which one, more 
‘experienced, arranges for the papers. Surely there are none 
so busy but they could do a little in this way, and thus .“‘ sow 
‘beside all waters,’ and there are those among us who are 
talented to write. Dear ones, let not this talent be hidden in 
the napkin of indifference, or selfishness, and thus you will 
receive the answer ‘‘ Thou slothful servant.” 


The juvenile department has received more attention than 
in former years, but we are so poor at reporting that I fear 
Mrs. James has had but little to cheer her. As I have been 
privileged to meet the children in several places and see their 


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earnest faces as they listened to the simple truths in regard to: 
making better lives, I have felt how important the few years in 
which the unfilled pages of these immortal minds can be 
reached. In this precocious age the children outgrow the 
juvenile societies, which at first were so fascinating, and happy 
is that teacher who can hold the children after they are in their 
teens.. How incumbent that we secure the fleeting hours of 
childhood, and there is much to encourage in this interesting: 


field. 


The great gain in the Sunday School lessons in presenting’ 
this subject from the Bible is cause of thankfulness. This is. 
the result of the persistency of our indefatigable National 
Superintendent, Miss Lucia Kimball, who for seven years has. 
petitioned the International Lesson Committee for this. May 
we encourage our pastors to supplement these lessons by 
sermons on the subject adapted to the minds of the children; 
and may we, as Unions, study the Bible as given in the Bible 
Readings by our dear Hannah W. Smith, that we may under- 
stand what God would say to us. 


In the Prison, Jail and Flower Mission Department, our 
earnest Superintendent will tell you of the hearts incited 
heavenward and cheered by the texts prepared by our sweet 
Jennie Cassiday, who, from her bed of pain and prostration, 
sends the messages of a Father’s love, which, with the bright 
flowers, emblems of His goodness, have touched hard, sin- 
calloused hearts. .As 1 think, dear) Beébersisters/of yam 
strawberry and floral messengers, that went laden with prayer 
to those shut out by crime from the sympathy of the world, I 
feel they were like a benediction which will return in blessing 
to you and like the “cup of cold water’ will receive the reward. 
And Judsonia deserves a meed of praise for like benevolence 
in remembering the blind, the sick in the hospital, and the 
poor in the city of Little Rock. 


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sane 


How illustrative of the work we are engaged in endeav- 
oring to lead the morally blind into the way of true happiness, 
comforting the stricken heart, and opening a door of hope to 
all through the love of God in Christ Jesus. 


The Legislature has not received much attention except 
to encourage all to take advantage of the ‘“Three-Mile-Law,” 
which, with all its defects, 1s a great blessing. But we hope to 
“lend our aid and influence” to changes which will make it 
much more effectual. There are other laws which I trust our 
Superintendent will look after and, if possible, secure a change. 
We have some good help in this direction in Col. W. P. Grace, 
President of the State Prohibition Alliance, and others. To 
our faithful Superintendent of work for reformed men has 
been committed that far more delicate but much-nceded 
department of Social Purity. It has often been said tauntingly 
‘“you women are very anxious to rescue the men who are 
going to ruin, but what are you doing for those of your own 
sex who have fallen from virtue through the same deadly influ- 
ence—the drink curse?” I urge each Local Union to duplicate 
this department by a superintendent, and take up the work as 
a sacred trust from Him who has committed the children to us 
when their minds are like plastic clay. Do any of us say: 
‘Our daughters are safe?’ Too many try thus to satisfy 
themselves. But is there a mother who has read the heart- 
sickening accounts of daughters, carefully reared by Christian 
mothers, who have been lured to ruin by the deep-laid 
schemes of villains who still move in the so-called “best 
society’ without a thrill of horror as instinctive sense of that 
mother’s agony came to her when, like a flash, came the 
thought ‘how could I live if it were my daughter?’ As 
revolting as have been the revelations of the last year, it will 
not do for us to shut our ears to them for the times of igno- 
rance which God winked at have passed, and He calls us, each 
one, to inquire earnestly “what can Ido?” Already has the 
knowledge which caused our cheeks to tinge with shame led 
to steps which have resulted in a change of law in some States 


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by which the virtue of our daughters has been placed under 
protection nearer to that given to their property. One of the 
first things to do is to agitate the subject till an intelligent 
public sentiment shall demand the same social purity of mex 
which ¢hey demand of women, and to extend to the tempted, 
erring sister, the helping hand, and seek to win her back to 
virtue, and as far as possible provide protection to her. 


I realize that this path is beset with many obstacles. The 
false modesty which has kept so many of the better class, even 
Christian people, from doing, as Job said he did, “The cause 
which I knew not I searched out,” must be overcome; and 
surely we need not fear to follow where our peerless Miss 
Willard so bravely leads. 


The plans which will from time to time be given by the 
N. C. W. T. U., will be adopted as far as suited to our situation. 


The Superintendent of work among the colored people 
has endeavored to do what she could, and while it has not 
been practical to organize Women’s Unions as was hoped, 
there has been good work with encouraging results in many 
places. There has been some literature on Franchise 
circulated, but otherwise nothing has been done, but I trust as 
Temperance women, we have not been thoughiless on this all- 
important subject, when liquor dealers’ associations put 
officially upon record ‘that the ballot, in the hands of women, 
is death to the liquor traffic,” when the more ignorant of that 
class say, as did the Irishman in Little Rock, to the Rev. 
Benjamin Thomas, when he expressed the conviction “ that 
women were as capable of voting intelligently as men, and he 
would give them the right,” pointing his finger significantly, 
he replied, “ Doctor, you could not get a drink of whisky in 
Little Rock to-morrow if they did,” do we not see that it is a 
power we should not ignore, but should be preparing ourselves 
to use wisely when it comes to us; for come it will whether 
we will it or not. Our dear Mrs. Rolluage, who had planned 
so wisely for the Department of Hygeine and Heredity, being 
compelled by domestic cares to be released, Mrs. T. A. 


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Dunlap was appointed in her place, who will report to you. 
This is a subject of vital importance to us as a nation, and the 
increase of knowledge in regard to the responsibility of 
parentage and especially of motherhood is a great gain, if we 
can get it studied and appreciated. Our National Superin- 
tendent, Mrs. Mary W. Burnett, M. D., who edits so ably the 
Journal of Heredity, a quarterly, has laid us under obligations, 
by kindly donating a copy to each Union, as far as she had the 
names of officers, and I hope it will be made a part of the 
Union, and, as far as can be, a household treasure for reference 
and instruction. 


The Scientific Department being one on which we wish to 
make a united effort fora law the present year, has received 
particular attention. Our efficient Superintendent, whose 
report will be read by another, has been under the shadow of 
a great sorrow, in the continued nervous prostration of her 
noble husband. She has labored as faithfully as possible under 
the circumstances, and I know they have the sympathy and 
prayers of many of the sisters. Through the kindness of the 
National Superintendent, we have been freely supplied with 
literature on this subject, and sample pages of the Text-Books 
we wish to introduce. These have been widely scattered as 
much as possible to teachers in the schools and influential men. 
The same kindness donated a set of the Text-Books to Prof. 
W.E. Thompson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and 
to myself. Twenty stores have secured similar legislation to 
that which we desire. 


The patient, persistent and skillful efforts of Mrs. Mary 
H. Hunt at the National Capitol, for such a law by Congress, 
for all schools under its immediate control, which includes 
schools in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and 
schools for the Army and Navy, have so far succeeded that 
the bill with all the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed, as one Senator 
said, unanimously passed that august body, the Senate of the 
United States. This law passed the House unamended, with 
only eight voting against it and was promptly signed by the 


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President. Mrs. Hunt's efforts were supplemented by petitions 
signed by tens of thousands of the best men of our land, andall 
of the “White Ribbon Army.” Letters from representatives of 
the State assure us that their influence and vote will be given 
to it when it is put upon its passage in the House and we are 
trustingly committing it in prayer to Him who has declared 
that “‘ righteousness exalteth a nation.” 


The four departments of Sabbath Observance, Unfermented 
Wine, Editing and Printing, and Union Signal are important 
parts of our social fabric, in building up that solid structure 
which shall stand the fires of opposition, and the test of time, 
and the reports will show the faithfulness of those who had 
them in charge. 


Miss Ethel O. Tansel, of Paragould, was appointed 
Superintendent of Young Women’s Work, and we welcome » 
the two Unions reported as the beginning of a good work in 
which these dear young sisters may become interested, and 
thus help to bear the burden that owv mantles may fall on the 
willing shoulders of those prepared for the service. 


The foreign population of the State has claimed 
considerable of my thought for in reading the report of the 
Liquor Dealers’ Association of Little Rock, J find as in other 
places, a large per cent. of these officers are of foreign birth. 
Mrs Harriet Cheaney, of Judsonia, consented to see what 
could be done to reach them, but she writes to me, that outside 
of the distribution of German literature contributed by Mrs. 
S. Grubb, our National Superintendent, and the Sabbath 
Observance Association of Philadelphia, and the collection of 
one dollar, she had not been able to do anything. I sent for 
fifty or more copies of the German paper now issued from our 
own publishing house, and placed them where they would 
reach some of the German settlements. I also urged the Union 
at Little Rock to take up this work. The kind offer of Miss 
Helen L. Hood to send sample parcels of literature to all 
public associations, quickened into action a thought I had 
already, and, as we had no Superintendent of Conference with 


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influential bodies I have done what I could. I supplied 
credentials to several sisters as fraternal delegates, and, when 
I could get no delegate, sent communications, and visited in 
person some of them, and to all ordered parcels of literature. 
In this way our work has been brought before twenty-three of 
these gatherings, including District and Annual Conferences of 
Methodists, Presbyterian Synods and Presbyteries, Baptist 
Associations, Sabbath School County and District Conferences, 
Teachers Institutes and Associations, two State Medical and 
the Press Association. By invitation three ladies addressed or 
read essays at Teachers’ Institutes. As far as I know at each 
we were kindly received and our work endorsed. Quite a 
mumber passed resolutions of kind appreciation, and one, the 
Pine Bluff District Conference, sent a message of greeting to 
the National Convention at Philadelphia as well as to ourselves 
to-day. At Pope County Sunday School Convention the Union 
of Atkins had one session, as also the Russellville Union at the 
Annual Methodist Episcopal Conference. The programme of 
each was interesting and the session spoken of as one of the 
most enjoyable and instructive held, and I wish to say that in 
public exercises as lectures, etc., very many of the ministers 
are our staunch helpers, and we rejoice in the strength and 
encouragement given. May we go forward in the faith 
EXPheesea in) Our) state, motto “God ts our Refuge and 
Strength,” and while we adopt as our emblem the magnolia, 
our noble southern queen of flowers, whose language is 
“ Magnanimity,” may we accept the promise of our blessed 
savior, “ If God so clothed the grass of the field, shall He not 
much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” And we need to 
be inspired with this faith, for while the plan for increasing 
our means to carry on the work has been a present help, and 
given pledge for the future, it has not been so ample as to 
enable us to to take up all the work we would have been glad 
to do. Let us still plead that Our Father will constrain to a 
consecration of money as well as time and talents. If this is 
consecrated to His service, shall we feel it right to spend so 


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much for ornament and pride, when the gospel is so barely 
supplied, and the cause we love in so much need of funds to: 
carry it on successfully. Our dear Miss DeVelling, after her 
summer vacation, came to us again and has been traveling 
indefatigably. She has been ‘cheered and encouraged in many 
places; at others she has met opposition, or apathy; but amid 
all has been sustained by the consciousness that she was serving 
a blessed Master, who knows all the toils and lifts his children 
above all the trials. She has had the happiness of knowing 
that some of the seed she sowed last year is bearing good 
fruit, while other seed is not Jost, but waiting the fructifying 
influence of kindred spirits to make it bud and blossom. The 
testimony from many places is that she has gained in power 
and forcible argument, as well as in persistent, persuasive 
eloquence. Wherever her lot may be cast in the future, she 
will ever hold a warm place in our hearts. 


As we look over the broad field, the world, we have great 
cause to feel that ‘‘hitherto God hath helped us.” This cen- 
tennial year of Temperance has indeed witnessed a progress. 
none would have dared to prophecy. Would that I could tell 
you of all the blessing that came to us in the National Union. 
as we mingled together in that week of busy work, when we 


) 


were so royally welcomed in the “city of sisterly love;’ when 
we clapsed hands with sisters from ocean to ocean; from the 
gulf to the queen’s dominions, and welcomed fraternal dele- 
gates from many kindred associations. Suffice it to say that 


there was very much to encourage every lover of the cause. 


The expansion in all the thirty-eight departments of work, 
and the hearty endorsement of the thirty-ninth, that most. 
delicate of all, Social Purity, was full evidence that there had 
been no ‘set-back’ as had been feared by some, and 
prophesied by others, and when the resolution which had 
threatened separation came up, only thirty out of the whole 
two hundred and ninety-three voted against it. This, with 
the action of a large proportion of the States who had been 
outspoken in its favor, showed there was a united influence 


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upholding the National Union in its action. And yet in the 
liberty which comes from unity in the love of Christ, the 
protest against the action of the Convention, signed by twenty- 
six, and the reply to the protest by a committee, was full 
evidence that “that charity which suffereth long and is kind”’ 
chad large part in the counsels of the Convention. Messengers 
in the North, South, East and West have run to and fro, and 
knowledge has increased and the peaceful war has been carried 
as never before into the halls of Congress. The wonderful 
victory in Atlanta; the short, sharp, but triumphant contest in 
Rhode Island, with many in other places, attest the truth that 
God will bless the right even against fearful odds. It may be 
said that in all these victories the “right arm of the service ” 
was the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which can 
boast many fearless leaders as skillful in the righteous, blood- 
less warfare for the home and the children as ever planned a 
campaign for battle when shot and shell were the weapons of 
defense. Many new recruits have enlisted who have proved 
themselves skillful, and some have won laurels that will not 
fade. ‘Thus God carries on the work and although yet removes 
the workers. To-day we mourn the loss of some of the 
veterans of the cause; notably among these, our long-loved 
friend and brother, John B. Gough, who, as in the twinkling of 
an eye, almost, passed from earth to glory. His last, emphatic 
injunction, ‘‘ Young man, keep your record clear,” seems as a 
message from Heaven. As large and world-wide as have been 
his labors, his dying charge, echoed by thousands of tongues 
and pens may be like the last effort of Sampson of old. 
Among others who have laid down the cross and taken the 
crown we mourn the loss of one of our earliest, staunchest 
Memuets uw Vits. e.cdeline Perry (of) searcy,, \ ler heart’.and 
hospitality were free when it meant reproach to shelter and 
stand by those who were actively engaged in this cause. She 
was ever tender and true, and her counsels and prayers at our 
first meeting seven years ago were much to that timid band, 
and for over eight years each week found her at the prayer- 


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meeting to plead for a blessing on the cause of Temperance: 
and especially on the W. C. T. U. She was preparing to be 
with us at this time, but instead has been called to join that 
throng which no man can number. Another, Mrs. Eaton, 
joined the Union at Hazen and gave herself to us to do her 
part; but in twenty-four hours was called to hear the welcome 
“Well done.” She leaves a bright record as a Christian wife 
and mother. 


In conclusion, dear sisters and friends, I would thank you 
all for the loving help you have given me in the year that has 
passed. I feé¢ I could rely upon you, and this confidence has. 
not been misplaced. I feel that we are a united band, and 
with the added light that comes from seeking to know the 
mind of the great Leader and the experience which comes from 
service, may we go forward in this blessed work dwelling in 
the spirit of prayer; thus being prepared to unite in the more 
public feasts when we wrestle for the blessing. I would 
acknowledge the peace and joy that has come to my own 
heart, notwithstanding the sense of great responsibility, as I 
have endeavored to do my part. And now that the year is. 
passed I commit it all, service and failures, to Him who has. 
said ‘“‘my word shall not return unto me void, but shall prosper 
in the thing whereunto I sent it.” 


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AGN Deh AV 


9:30 a.m. Devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. A. S, 
Harris of Rogers. 


Minutes read and adopted. 


A telegram from Eureka Springs was received, sending 
greetings and an invitation to hold the next State Convention 
at that place. 


The address of welcome was read by Miss S. A. Eldridge. 


The response by Mrs. Olive P. Haney, Russellville, was 
read by Mrs. N. N. Pruitt, Russellville. (See Appendix.) 


The By-Laws, prepared to supplement the Constitution 
under which the society was incorporated, were acted on 
separately and adopted. 


May was the time appointed for the annual meeting, the 
place and date to be fixed by the Executive Committee. 


The Rev. D. Slavens, fraternal delegate from the M. E. 
Church, Judsonia, and Judge Cypert of Searcy were introduced 
to the Convention. 


_ The reports read and received were on Reformed Men 
and Social Purity, Temperance Literature and Work among 
the Colored People. A report from Judsonia Union was also 
read and received. 


Noon hour of prayer was conducted by Rev. D. Slavens; 
benediction by Rev. J. M. Clayton. 


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AFTERNOON SESSION: 


2:30. Devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. I. N. 
Dunlap. 


Minutes were read and approved. 


A paper was read by Mrs. Fannie E. Suddarth; subject, 
“What makes the Drunkard ?” 


The report on Scientific Instruction by Mrs. Hart, was 
read by Mrs. Cornelius. 


Report on Prison and Jail Work by Mrs. E. R. Colwell, 
was read and received. Earnest remarks by Miss DeVelling, 
Judge Cypert and Col. Grace followed. 


A motion that a committee be appointed to draft a 
memorial to be presented to the next Legislature in regard to 
appointing a lady visitant to the penitentiary at a salary, carried. 


Committee on Credentials reported. 
Mrs. Julia A. Clark read her report on the “Union Signal.” 


| Greetings from the District Conference of the M. E., 
Church South, Pine Bluff, were received with thanks by the 
Convention. 


Mires Ty oA. Dunlap gave her report on Hygiene and 
Heredity, followed by the Temperance Report of the Medical 
_ Association of Arkansas. 


A report on Sabbath Observance by Mrs. C. E. Gill, was 
received. 


Adjourned to 8:30 p. m. 


Benediction by Rev. T. Rawlins. 


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NIGH le Shs SION: 


A select choir opened the meeting with a song, and after 
prayer by Rev. W. Pemberton, sang again. 


After the singing Miss DeVelling asked and was granted the 
privilege of the floor, and, to the surprise of the four persons 
who had been beguiled into seating themselves in the beautiful 
easy chairs arranged on the platform, she tenderly presented 
the chair in which each was ensconced to its occupant, and to 
each she gave a letter containing kind words of personal 
regard from her own generous heart, and the assurance that 
the gifts were tokens of the loving appreciation in which the 
friends of the recipients held their work in the cause of 
Temperance. 


The President returned thanks for the sweet remember- 
* ance of herself and the other three, Maj. Palmer, Mrs. Cor- 
nelius and Mrs. Colwell, who sat with closed lips, diffused eyes, 
and grateful hearis. 


Col. Grace, Judge Cypert and Rev. G. M. Hill followed 
with appropriate remarks, after which, at the suggestion of 
Miss DeVelling the Chautauqua salute was exchanged. 


Col. W. P. Grace of Pine Bluff was then introduced as 
the speaker of the evening. In closing his lecture he com- 
mended the method adopted by the W. C. T. U. for raising 
money—that of selling stock, and said he thought large 
success would follow well-directed effort in that line. 


Mrs. Cornelius supplemented these encouraging words 
with others full of enthusiasm concerning the purchase of 
property in Little Rock for headqearters for the State W. C. 
T. U. She said Col. Grace said it could be done, and she 
believed it could and would be done, and then our boys would 
find friends and entertainment when they came to the city 
more inviting than the saloon could provide. 


Mrs. Wells then spoke just long enough to create a desire 
in the Convention to hear more. 


Benediction by Rev. J. E. Doyle. 


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THIRD DAY. 


MORNING SESSION. 


9:30. Devotional exercises. Minutes read and approved. 


The report of the committee to draft a memorial to the 
Legislature concerning the appointment of a lady visitant to 
the penitentiary was read and approved. 


It was voted that Col. Grace be requested to present the 
memorial to the Legislature. 


Captain Tabor and Rev. Geo. M. Sanborne of Little Rock, 
were introduced to the Convention. 


The time having arrived for the election of officers, Mrs. 
Dodge was called to the chair. 


Mrs. Lydia M. Chace was unanimously re-elected Presi- 
dent; and, having been escorted to the chair, spoke some 
pleasant words of thanks. 


Mrs. E. R. Colwell was elected Recording Secretary; Mrs. 
I. N. Dunlap Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. Mary A. 
Cornelius, Treasurer. 


The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, all 
of which were read and adopted: 


Wuereas, The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Arkansas 
has, in the good providence of God, been permitted to assemble. in its 
Eighth Annual Convention and has been greatly refreshed and encouraged 
by this meeting together; therefore, 


Resolved, That we go on with renewed courage in the work of 
endeavoring to “‘rescue the perishing’’ and redeem the land from the 
dominion of the liquor traffic; and that we will not rest contented until 
its utter extinction is accomplished. And as the question of universal 
suffrage, in its relation to the final triumph of Prohibition, is one in which 
some are unsettled and others. hold widely divergent views; : therefore, 


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Resolved, That we recommend that this important matter be carefully 
cand prayerfully considered by all Temperance women in. the State of 
Arkansas, each for herself. Asan association we stand by the resolution 
adopted at the State Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance 
Union, held at Forrest City, May 1884. 


Resolved, That we stand by the principles and plans of the National 
Women’s Christian Temperance Union. 


Resolved, That at all State meetings, or associations, our cause be 
‘presented and urged, either by delegate or letter. 


Resolved, That we will use our influence to have Temperance text 
books introduced into all our schools, both public and private, and that we 
will petition our State Legislature to enact laws requiring the study of 
physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic 
-drinks and narcotics upon the human system. 


Resolved, That we greatly deprecate the unnecessary use of alcoholic 
liquors in medical practice, and note with gratitude that the number of . 
physicians who exclude them from their practice is increasing, and recom- 
mend that so far as practicable this subject be brought before physicians 
and medical associations. 


Resolved, That upon the Church rests the most solemn obligations to 
see to it that her children and youth are thoroughly and wisely instructed 
in regard to Temperance, and that pastors of Churches and Superin- 
tendents of Sunday Schools use Temperance lessons at the appro- 
priate time. 


Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be given Miss I. C. 
DeVelling for her earnest and arduous labors as State Organizer, and that 
its best wishes and prayers attend her in the future; also to J. L. Palmer, 
for the efficient manner in which he planned and organized her routes of 
travel, and tor conducting all correspondence necessary for a complete 
success. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the W. C. T. U. of this State are 
extended to Mrs. Wells, one of our most gifted National Organizers, for 
her timely and welcome visits to Arkansas, and that we bid her a hearty 
God’s speed in her labor of love for ‘“‘ God, and home and native land.” 

Resolved, That we are rejoiced at the growing interest in the cause of 
Prohibition, and that we do most heartily endorse the sentiments of the 
Prohibition Alliance of the State of Arkansas, und that we pledge ourselves 
to stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers until the battle shall have 
been fought and the victory won. 

Resolved, That we tender our sincere sympathy and condolence to 
those of our dear sisters whose homes have been darkened during the 
year by the shadow of death, and remind them that the Lord chasteneth 
whom He loveth. 


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Resolved, That this Convention does most heartily thank the railroad 
companies for reduced rates; the press for its courtesies, and the families- 
who have so hospitably entertained the delegates. . 


Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention, and its visitors, be- 
given the ladies of Beebe for their generous and elegant lunches. The 
feast of reason and flow of soul was well supplemented bv all that could 
refresh the outward woman. 

Resolved, That we appreciate the sweet songs rendered by the- 
Beebe choir. 


Resolved, That to the pastor and stewards of the M. E. Church, 
South, our thanks are given for the use of their pleasant Church. 


Resolved, That the communication from the Rev. J. M. Clayton in 
reference to his appreciation of the work accomplished by the W.C. T. U., 
is thankfully received by the Convention. 

A communication was received from J. W. Conger, A. M.,. 
Superintendent of Prescott Public Schools, expressing his: 
endorsement of the efforts of the W. C. T. U., to get before 
the children of Arkansas the text books setting forth the 
injurious effects of stimulants and narcotics on both mind 


and body. 


The report on Franchise by Mrs. Myra Vaughan was read. 
and, after remarks by Mrs. Wells, Captain Taber, Judge Cypert 
and Col. Grace, was adopted and ordered to be printed in as. 
many of our State papers as will publish it. 


Noon hour of prayer led by Captain Taber. 
Benediction by the Rev. J. M. Clayton. 


ABTERNOON@SHSSION: 


2:30. Religious exercises conducted by -Mrs. Curtis. 
Minutes read and approved. 


It was voted that the State W. C. T. U.) adopt the 
Magnolia blossom, the language of which is magnanimtty, as: 
its emblem, and for its motto “ God is our refuge and strength.” 


Moved and carried that the Executive Committee appoint 
the delegate to the N. W. C. T. U. Convention at Minneapolis. 


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Mrs. M. M. Pruitt was appointed fraternal delegate to the 
Prohibition Alliance at Russellville. 


Report of the Y. W. C. T. U. was given by Miss Rowie 
‘Curtis. 


Reports from the Bands of Hope at Hazen, Beebe, Eureka 
Springs, Arkadelphia and Judsonia were received. Mrs. Wells 
addressed the assembled Band of Hope of Beebe, after which 
‘two of its number made pretty speeches. 


Rev. W. Scott, of Pleasant Plains, Ill., was presented to 
the Convention. 


_The Three-Mile Law was discussed by Judge Cypert, Mrs. 
‘Cornelius, Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Harris. 


Pledges of money to pay for printing the minutes was 
‘called for. The responses were from Judsonia Union, $3; 
Hazen, $2.50; Rogers, $2; Van Buren, $2; Pleasant Plains, 
Ill., $2; Sunday School of the Congregational Church, Little 
Rock, $2; .Main Street M. E. Church, Little Rock, $1; First 
Baptist Church, Little Rock, $1; the Y’s of Hazen, 50 cents; 
Captain Taber for the Y’s of Hazen, $2; the Y’s of Eureka 
Springs, $2; Mrs. Taber, $2; and for the Congregational 
Church, Little Rock, $2; Beebe Methodist Church, $1; Rus- 
seliville, 1; Mrs. Chace, $1; Beebe, $1; Azszng Wave, $1. 
Other delegates said they would send money after consulting 
their Unions. 


All unfinished business was referred to the Executive 
‘Committee with power to act. 


Adjourned with singing the doxology. 





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NIGHT SESSION. 


8:30. Miss I. C. DeVelling followed the opening exercises. 
with a brief, pleasant speech in which she presented a silver cup 
to each of the two infant members of the W. C. T. U., Harry 
B. Tabor of Little Rock, and Mary DeVelling Rollwage of. 
Forrest City. 


Mrs. M. L. Wells was introduced as the speaker of the 
evening. Her lecture was very interesting and was well. 
received. 


Convention adjourned szne dve. 





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APPENDIX. 


ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY MISS L. A. ELDRIDGE. 


Mrs. President, Officers, Delegates and Friends : 


You are once more assembled in this the eighth annual 
Convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of 
the State of Arkansas, and as a representative of the local 
Union of Beebe, the pleasant duty of extending to you our 
cordial greeting has been conferred upon me. 


We are glad to meet you, and become familiar with the 
voices of those who represent so important an element in the 
interests of the State. Temperance isa part of religion, and 
our Christian Temperance women look well to the ways of 
their household, and by no means eat the bread of idleness, 
and are the truest and best home women in the land. Their 
lives are full of daily duties, cares, and perchance anwnieties, 
but among them are found large minds, great hearts and puri- 
fied souls; women whose hearts are stirred with sorrow 
because of the sin and suffering in the world, and whose lives 
have a purpose, a meaning, a mission—that of lifting up, com- 
forting and teaching fallen humanity; therefore, we bid you 
welcome. 


The larger proportion of those before me may be strangers 
to us, aS we are accustomed to consider acquaintanship; but 
having a common interest at heart we recognize you as friends 
and helpers in this grand and God-given work, and as such we 
welcome you. We also call to mind the familiar Scriptural 
injunction, ‘‘ Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby 
some have entertained angels unawares.” These words have 
a close connection with the aged patriarch who, from his tent 


34 EIGHTH! ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 





door watched the approach of the strangers, who proved to be 
Heavenly visitants; and while they partook of Abraham’s 
hospitplity, gave him in return a gracious message from Heaven 
which has brought untold blessings to mankind. | 


The ladies of our Union have beén looking forward to 
your coming with pleasure, and as they welcome you to the 
hospitality of their homes, they also believe that you come to 
them with messages of life, strength and healing. Your 
experiences have been deep and your convictions earnest. God 
has spoken to you once, twice, thrice, perhaps, and your words 
will come to us as a fresh inspiration of God’s way “in 
choosing the weak things of the world to confound the things 
that are mighty.” 


Woman’s true mission is service for God, and that service 
extends over wide and various fields, white and ready for the 
harvest; and not the least in importance is the Temperance 
field Special interest attends each annual gathering. 


The review of work in the State the past year is more or 
less connected with the review of the work the past century, 
so full of hope and blessing, to which reference will doubtless 
be made by those present who had the pleasure of attending 
the Temperance Centennial last October in Philadelphia. We 
note marked progress in the review of one year’s work, and 
wonderful changes in the past century, or even half century. 
Reforms are slow but sure. Fifty years ago the use of alcohol 
was almost universal. It was not looked upon as an evil but 
asa good. Now, science pronounces it a poison, and the moral 
man condemns it as an enemy to virtue. It used to be thought 
that nobody could live without it, now it is seen that no one 
can live a healthy, useful life who uses it at all. Fourteen 
States have introduced regular instruction regarding its nature 
and effects into their public schools, and a multitude of 
children are being daily taught how it destroys both body and 
mind. It is not too much to say that the latter has been 
brought about through the agency of women. 


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The Christian forces cannot be put down, for God Hims. lf 
is the commander of the host, and “if God be for us, who shall 
be against us ?” 


The true leaven of Christian Temperance is working in the 
hearts of our home-loving and God-fearing Arkansas women, 
and we believe their earnest endeavors in behalf of the right 
and the good will not be lost; but like the grain sown by the 
husbandman in fruitful soil, will by and by yield much fruit to 
the praise and honor of God. 


You have come together to consider and devise the best 
methods of prosecuting this work that is constantly enlarging 
before us. May the giver of all wisdom impart to you, my 
dear sisters, according to your need, and enable you to open 
up these important subjects in such a way that the masses of 
our people shall see them as they have never seen them before. 
We are glad to greet you all, and again we bid you welcome. 
Welcome to our homes, where we trust you may find rest and 
refreshment suited to your need; a cordial welcome to this 
place of worship, although plain and simple in structure and 
furnishings, yet, like the tabernacle of old, may it be to you 
and to us all a place of morning and evening sacrifice; a place 
of consecration and. reconsecration to the blessed service of 
God and humanity. It is only by prayer, with thanksgiving 
and obedience to Divine law that our Women’s Christian 
Temperance Union can win the blessing of Prohibition to the 
sons and daughters of our beloved State. May the Master of 
assemblies guide you in all your deliberations and grant you 
wisdom to plan and power to adopt and execute such measures 
as shall insure success and bring about this glorious result. 





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RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 


Mrs. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 


It gives me great pleasure to respond to the cordial 
welcome extended to the members of this Convention. And 
in behalf of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 
of the State of Arkansas, I thank you for this warm greeting. 
I would say to the genial people of Beebe that we most heartily 
appreciate this assurance of welcome to your pleasant homes. 
And although this is, to some of us, the first visit to your 
prosperous village, we do not feel as strangers, but as friends 
enjoying the full measure of generous hospitality so lovingly 
bestowed. When we remember that your Union was organized 
only a little over a year ago, and see how much its faithful 
workers have done for the cause of Temperance, our hearts are 
filled not only with love and admiration for these noble women, 
but also with praise and thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father 
who has so greatly blessed your efforts. And while as 
co-workers we meet and mingle, sharing this blessed com- 
munion, our souls are cheered and strengthened and our hearts 
inspired to greater zeal and earnestness. And when we leave 
this place and return to our respective fields of labor, the 
memory of these dear friends will cling about us as sweet 
incense recalling these pleasant scenes, giving a new impetus 
to our work and causing us to look forward with joyful antici- 
pations to our next State meeting. For all these evidences of 
genuine hospitality, and the many fond expressions of welcome 
which greet us on every hand, again I thank you. 


While these meetings are occasions of so much that is 
delightful in a social point of view, we are not forgetful that 
they are the grand rallying centers from which eminate the 
forces which characterize our work, and are therefore seasons 
of sober, conscientious work, rather than pastime and enjoy- 


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‘ment. We come as a band of earnest Christian women, to 
hear and add our tegtimony as to “how goes the battle,” and 
fully realizing the importance of faithful, intelligent, as well as 
persistent work, to gather new strength and help for future 
duties. And while in this, as all other good work, things do 
not always go smoothly, and we sometimes meet with discour- 
agements, is it not, dear sisters and friends, most cheering and 
gratifying to know the progress that has been made toward the 
prohibition of the liquor traffic in our beloved land? And 
that in our own State the Temperance sentiment and the 
principles involved in the work are daily taking deeper root in 
the hearts and consciences and lives of our people. The 
women of Arkansas may feel a just pride, as well as a deep 
sense of thanktulness to God for what has been done for the 
‘cause, mainly through their efforts in the last few years. 


When we consider the arduous and unceasing toil and 
wise management of such noble, consecrated women as Mrs. 
R. L. Dodge, Mrs. M. A. Cornelius, and others who have been 
at the front so long, and the untiring zeal and devotion of our 
beloved President, Mrs. Lydia M. Chace; the prayerful persist- 
ence of our successful and indefatigable worker and State 
Organizer, Miss I. C. DeVelling; such clear-sighted and far- 
seeing men as Col. Grace and Maj. Palmer, with all the host of 
noble women and men who have each been doing with their 
might what they could in waging this peaceful war “ for God; 
and home and native land;” and realize how much has been 
accomplished even in the last year, our hearts are filled with 
rejoicing, and we are led toexclaim: ‘ Praise the Lord for His 
goodness ; for His wonderful acts to the children of men.” To 
those brave sisters who went about from place to place, in all 
kinds of weather, sacrificing ease and comfort, laboring so 
unremittingly in order that they might sow the seeds of Chris- 
tian Temperance, we would say, our fervent prayers and truest 
sympathy were constantly with you. But none but Him whose 
loving eye is ever upon us, taking note of our smallest action ; 
knows how great were your trials, and how many your 


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discouragements. And truly this seed-sowing has not been in 
vain, for we have already had many proofs of good accom- 
plished toward staying the awful tide of intemperance that is. 
sweeping over our land; and we look forward with great 
expectations, confidently believing that a rich and plenteous. 
harvest will soon be gathered as a still further result of these 
labors. The toilers in this field of Temperance do not expect 
earthly compensation in money, fame or position, but in doing 
the noblest work, and beyond the crown of life shining with 
stars. For the blessed word says “They that turn many to 
righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.” ‘In 
reaping there is joy on earth, and on high the joy of bringing’ 
sheaves to the Lord. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, 
that He send forth more laborers into His harvest.” 


All true work for humanity is work for Christ, and we feel 
that we cannot as Christian women, professing to love Christ, 
and calling Him our Master, occupy an indifferent position or 
remain silent while this great foe of humanity is doing his 
work of destruction. When we are told that there are two 
hundred thousand liquor saloons daily sowing their seeds of 
godliness and dragging down precious souls to death and 
eternal ruin, is it not time that every true man and woman 
should come out boldly on the side of God and right, 
knowing assuredly that if they do not they are on the side of 
iniquity ? For there is zo middle ground. Our Saviour says: 
“ He that is not for me is against me.” 


History bears me out in the assertion that woman has 
ever been an important factor in leading humanity to higher 
and nobler aims, and that to-day she is engaged in more 
charitable enterprises than ever before. She is beginning to: 
realize more fully that there is an urgent and pressing demand 
for work which cannot be done without her. In all that tends 
to elevate and purify the home and keep the family pure, no 
one can wield such a powerful influence. But there are many 
who are not sufficiently aroused to realize that they are needed 
in this great work of saving the bodies as well as the souls of 


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men, who, could they but know the joy, the happiness which 
it insures, would come forward and swell the throng until our 
White Ribbon Army would outnumber any army that has ever 
yet been seen. And oh, that those noble women could but see 
that God is calling them; that all the best interests of society ; 
all that is good, and pure and holy, is calling all to unite in 
using the best gifts which God has given them to rid our land 
from the terrible curse—the liquor traffic. 


In conclusion, I would say we know there is yet a work of 
wonderful magnitude ere this enemy of the peace and sanctity 
of home is banished from our fair land; and viewing it from a 
human standpoint, there would seem insurmountable obstacles, 
but we know also that ‘with God all things are possible.” 
And as members of the W. C. T. U. whose motto is “ faith in 
God,” and whose mightiest weapon is the Sword of the Spirit, 
we go confidently forward knowing in whom we have trusted, 
and that He hath said, “ Fear not, for they that be with us are 
more than they that be with them.” OLIVE P. Haney. 


REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 





The record of the year is made on high by Him who can 
adjust the balance of gain or loss and place it aright. From 
the blanks returned the following has been gleaned : 


GAINESVILLE. 


Has eleven members; State dues paid, $1.65 ; and $15 for 
local work; population two hundred. Have the benefit of the 
Three-Mile Law, but a billiard hall where young men and boys 
are lured to ruin is a cause of great distress to the mothers 
and better class of people. They use the Sunday School 
Quarterly Lessons, and the subject had been presented to some 


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of the public bodies. Their members have been reduced by 
removal, and the inclement weather prevented regular meetings,. 
but are being blessed in the weekly prayer-meetings now, and. 
have held called services for the advancement of the work. 


VAN BUREN. 


id 


Nine members; dues paid, $1.05; have raised $3.55 for 
State dues and $6.80 for local work. There is one Band of 
Hope with forty members; have circulated several hundred 
pages of literature; by invitation the President addressed the 
County Sunday School Convention; circulated the petition for 
Temperance text books in the schools under direction of 
Congress and forwarded $1 to help defray the expense. 


ATKINS. 


Holds weekly meetings and have held some entertain- 
ments in which the children took a prominent part. Had the 
arranging of the programme of one session of Pope County 
Sunday School Convention; have the benefit of ‘no license” 
vote in the County, but like other places have much opposition... 
They have paid $2 25 State dues and $11 for local work; had 
a column in the County paper for five months. 


BEEBE. 


Has thirty-six members; they have paid $4 State dues, 
$1.20 for local, and $1 was sent with petition asking Congress. 
for Temperance text books in schools; they have weekly 
meetings, and have observed some of the days of prayer}. 
have a Band of Hope with forty members; all four of the 
Churches use unfermented wine; use Suuday Schoel Quarterly 
Lessons; have circulated fifteen hundred pages of literature ; 
maintain a column in the County paper; use the Responsive 
Readings, and have presented the subject before influential 
bodies; have circulated forty petitions on the subject; the 
Lord has blessed the work in the midst of hindrances and. 


opposition. 


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AUGUSTA. 


Reports.nine members; $1.05 dues paid; has a_ Band of 
Hope of forty members, but not in a flourishing condition. 
This Union has seen better days, and we trust it may be revived 
again. It has had good influence in procuring Local Option 
and the Three-Mile Law; they have meetings semi-monthly. 


BORKESIoe CL x2 


This was the Union which united with Mrs. Clardy in the 
call for a State Union. Hold meetings weekly and have 
distributed considerable literature ; every fifth Sabbath one of 
the Churches has a Temperance sermon; have kept a Tem- 
perance column in the paper the last year; have the benefit of 
the Three-Mile Law. A mass meeting of the citizens have 
raised money, and prosecuted with success three blind tigers 
and reported the drug stores for-selling illegally; have paid 
$2.40 State dues. 


RUSSELLVILLE. 


Reports twenty-three members; $3.45 State dues paid; 
$21 for local work and sent $1 with petition for law in Congress 
for Temperance text books; hold weekly meetings which are 
very interesting ; have observed all the days of prayer. Cen- 
tennial Sunday, Crusade Day, and Gough Memorial Service, 
all deeply interesting and instructive. Have circulated a 
thousand pages of literature; have one column in the County 
paper; the five Churches all use unfermented wine; use Quar- 
terly Sunday School Lessons,and have endeavored to enlist the 
school boards in favor of Temperance text books with good 
prospects of success; havea Band of Hope with eighty-four 


members. 
CONWAY. 


Nine members; $1.35 State dues paid; circulated some 
literature, but have not made much progress in real work. 
Worked hard to get the Three-Mile Law; hid a majority but 
were undermined by the liquor men, and the town is still cursed 
with saloons. They have adopted the Responsive , Readings. 


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LITTLE CROCK. 

Reports weekly meetings; $5 State dues paid; distributed 
over a thousand pages of literature; have adopted the RKespon- 
sive Readings; $1 sent to Washington to aid in securing the 
law for Temperance text books; several shares of stock have 
been taken. 

HAZEN. 

Weekly prayer and business meetings; seventeen members; 
$1.30 State dues paid, and $12 for local work; three Churches 
use unfermented wine; there is one Young Ladies Union of 
nine members, and two Bands of Hope; have held one special 
prayer-meeting and Gough Memorial Services; have circulated 
three thousand pages of literature; Temperance text books 
have been introduced into two private schools, and the school 
board have agreed to put them into the public suhools; have 
the Three-Mile Law; hold mothers meetings. 


ROGERS. 

Sixteen members; $2.40 State dues paid; $16.75 raised 
for local work; meet weekly and are much blessed in prayer; 
four Churches use unfermented wine; school board voted to 
adopt Temperance text books; have circulated eight hundred 
pages of literature; use Responsive Readings; have presented 
the subject before two public bodies; have one saloon; circu- 
lated the petition for the Three-Mile Law; got five hundred 
and sixty-seven out of seven hundred, but the judge granted 
license; have had thirty prosecutions and gained twenty. 


CLARKSVILLE. 

Members twenty-eight; State dues paid $4.20; all three 
ot the Churches use unfermented wine; Temperance text 
books used in the schools; the dime collection taken on 
Crusade Day; keep a Temperance column in the paper and 
have presented it before the public bodies ; meet semi-monthly. 


EUREKA SPRINGS. 
This Union was organized April 23, 1886; twenty-three 
members; $4.45 State dues paid; a Young Ladies Union of 
fifteen and Band of Hope organized; take several copies of 


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‘the Union Signal; use Mrs. Hannah W. Smith’s Bible Readings ; 
superintendents of the several departments appointed; the 
outlook is encouraging. 


JUDSONIA. 

Reports thirty-five members and eight honorary members; 
$4.50 State dues paid; organized March 24th; have meetings 
semi-monthly; have a Band of Hope; both Churches use 
unfermented wine; have the benefit of ‘‘no license.” 


ARKADELPHIA. 

Reports twelve members; havé one Band of Hope with 
twenty members; have half a column in two papers, and have 
copies of Union Signal, Rising Wave and Builders; also use 
the Quarterly Sunday School Lessons. 


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REEPORDIO 


STATE TREASURER OF THEW. >. izxas 


The Treasurer of the State W. C. T. U. submits the follow- 
ing report of monies received and disbursed for one year from 
May 13, 1885 to May 12, 1886: 


Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius, Treasurer, in account with the State W. 
C. T. U.:— 


RECEIPTS. 
To ‘balance Onshand ies cscs levers wy eset wre theceloreteeieiale ots Ge nee cs $: . qo 
Contributed by Mrs. A. L. Thompson, Atlanta, Ga............ oes. ee 
Collections atthe Convention: =...5... ss sic» ve slue Ga cee eneeeerions te 28 00 
Literatures solar’. oc tcls ies case wns ore's dmiece a 6 sus tive ie ieee lets ete Repeats fel 40 
Prescott Union 22 20S Ged ace ov win aliete er nlesa fale piel teeta feet atten at tl 10 00 


Dues paid at the Convention at Little Rock as follows: Batesville 
$2.25; Rogers, $1.50; Clarksville, $2.25; Beebe, $2.05; Little 


Rock, @15 80. oss 6 cis 2's ve wu oie e slaterele aie @husela tiadelp eh emea Ente el 9 85 
Beebe for Leavitt. Bund. 2% 24. os cia See stipend en oie ee Ta 1 20 
Sale ot three 2Uittle |W olts.77s oan) es ch eteieeeleeene etn eee 1 50 
Forrest, City for minutes /2)..; - «cy.40 a ob <eh Batelete eters eee mente ia! 5 00 
Little: Rock: Union: (colored) for: minutes: y. ae. c tent ee eee «= 1 00 
Mrs, Latourette; Prescott, minutess. 4... <2 eee cree ie eee eT 1 00 
Liva Ue orny, Denton, main ULES es ec isiew a ee ier eee male ero nmalae ae ein ates « 10 
James Turner,;"Poplar; Grove, Minutes... asec: wee a ee eee 60 
Mrs. M.) Pruitt; Russellville; minutes). .\....< sacwers oe see eee ee 1 20 
Minutes soldiby Mrs: Chace? vio s25 ses ele nibte © oa he eee 5 00 
Little: Rock Union):minutes.. 5.5. see ie ee aire ee 5 00 
Collected by: Mys 7 Field i cic mwicens eter se tia eee ei omen ony eee 1 00 
Advertisements in min Utes.) «. 7. + ssl ee came ee etaeum ers ee ania 16 00 
Lizzie’ M, Crouch; Arkadelphia, minutes..i secs s > ose ee ees 10 
Mrs. Anna Harris, (Rogers; minutes... seca ceees eee ee ee 2 00 
Hazen, for minutes’: eee eos, Sel, otters wie aoe ete Rane tle ce atc ea 2 00 
De Valls Blutty min utes oc seas ceils ole ki le tire itetaca inlets ard tale ee ee 1 00 
Mrs.Hough, “Augustas minutes, ao ccre scutes ere a elaine eee ene 10 
Mrs. Ryle Dodge, minutes. sca a0 cs aleteties tale aie alee ae 25 
Dues from Augusta je cn0ei ss cles nue Ciece eeatiteieretst oe yar ere eens er ste ee nT 2 70 


Dues trom Clarkeville we, cals os ae eee ee ee bets. 


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TONGA FOIE CODE oe oe tes aie os es ee Tate re ee Ae CUM ase 1 35 
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MO CAE CaeCrmTR TLC SOTIA ee eer ee eecde. choline cd sale <’sitie a's es © veces 3 60 
POE EM 8 021070 SUT TCIS ATO ys Oi a ps a scass sicids ste es ce ees cle wees 2 00 


One hundred and ten shares of Arkansas W. C.T. U.stock sold.... 110 00 





Teel sin se aidininets eis isiela e+ o's pel wirig.s se uly ame ab tess s see ee $265 65 
DISBURSEMENTS. 

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Peete eA LOTAMLETALUTC yo ciclse's ee vide ateto o's'vin «410 316/01 46%» aleicnels e 2 25 
By amount paid for recording Articles of Associationfor W.C.T.U 5 00 
By amount for printing Certificates of Stock for W. C. T. U........ 4 00 
Pee OAL LODeN AtiONal) UNION SA UGH. «ci aicies ac © 0 + oe skein sos ais 15 12 
yeamiount paid tor Beebe Leavitt Fund... .5.....c00ssscccsrerses 1 20 
By amount paid on balance due Mrs. Cornelius...........22eeeee- 3 50 
ey tOuUniepald 1OL printing: Minutes... v.66... cma oie ee ese sv eenss 60 00 
By amount paid for printing President’s Circular................-. 3 00 
By amount paid for printing lists of Superintendents of Departments 1 50 
By amount of literature distributed by President.................. 10 00 


By amount paid for President’s expenses to National Convention.. 50 00 
By amount paid for President’s private secretary...........eee.00- 25 00 


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By amount paid for President’s postage and stationery............ 23 45> 

By amount paid for express and postage on minutes and other 
THEOTALUTE doe bn slose'h sila plcle eee chute vreiers lets hls wie Wk aes mie Meta nie tony cee tae 6 75- 

By amount paid for Treasurer’s postage and stationery......... ... 10 00° 
Total wii. ceeds els tee aieue sibs ole Pe ene ob ta eeinaett ee tee $2351.53 
Balance’ onan oie 0a silos lave ceratounh ote state celts tana ete aR nas oe $ 34 12° 





AUDITOR Si REEORgs 


We have examined the Treasurer's Report and find it accurate, and. 

that there is a balance in the Treasury of $34.12. 
MRS. M. M: PRUITT,; 

MRs. E. R. COLWELL. 


RE PORE ©) 


SUPERINTENDENT VOPR METRE EU Ras 





My report this year may seem to you rather discouraging, for of the 
forty-four Unions to whom I have written but fifteen have responded, and 
only a part of these have done anything in this line of work. Yet I 
believe much has been done in various ways to advance the cause, and I 
think we may rejoice to-day that Arkansas is as well up in the Temperance 
rank as she is. While many of the Unions have done nothing apparently, 
there has nevertheles been a quiet, persistent work going on which will 
result in much good. Public sentiment has been aroused to a greater 
degree than ever before and I belieye we may hope for even more yet for 
our State in the next few years. The following is what I have.to report: 


Little Rock Union has distributed several hundred pages of literature: 
and some pledges. The Monthly Readings have been adopted and are 
very interesting and profitable. I will say here that I think all of the 
Unions that have not already subscribed for them should do so at once. 
Address G. C. Hall, 161 La Salle St., Chicago; price, 13 copies for one 
dolar. Some of the jiterature circulated consisted of the White Cross 


series. (You have all no doubt heard of this movement). It was left at. . 


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WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 47 


‘the Y. M. C. A. rooms and the Secretary, Mr. Chipley, told me afterward 
that they had been read quite extensively by the young men who frequent 
‘the rooms. <A number of copies of Union Signal and Rising Wave taken. 
Van Buren Union has circulated some hundreds of pages of  litera- 
ture, and Beebe about fifteen hundred pages. Russellviile has circulated 
between two and three thousand pages; took upa dime collection amount- 
ing to $3.25 which was forwarded to the department at New York City. 
They have recently appointed a publication association representative, 
through whom they expect to do more work in the literary line in the 
future. Have had a column in their paper all the year devoted to this 
branch. Have a press superintendent. Cabot Union has done but little 
in literature work, but are happy to say the jug and bottle trade with 
which they have been cursed, has almost ceased. As DeValls Bluff is now 
-a Temperance town, they think it best not to reorganize. The Temperance 
Union at Brinkley is in a flourishing condition with thirty-two members, 
but owing to the death of their president they have made but little head- 
way. Fort Smith has no Union, but some Temperance work has been 
‘done. An effort was made to secure a column or part in one of the 
papers but could not raise money enough to have it done; only succeeded 
in having the Centennial Address published; no charges for that. Some 
Leaflets distributed to prisoners in United States Jail. Mrs. Harris of 
Rogers, writes: We take seven copies of Union Signal, one of National 
Bulletin, quite a number of Rising Wave, thirteen copies of Monthly 
Readings. We have distributed about eight hundred Leaflets, and over 
seventy-five catechisms on alcohol. Then last fall when we began to 
circulate our petition; a ‘ protest’? was not only published in our town 
paper by some of our citizens but they had two hundred and fifty hand- 
bills struck and circulated through the County. Our Union replied with a 
rejoinder,” and had it not only in the paper, but had the hand-bills also. 
Our editor will not give-us space in his paper so we had to pay five dollars 
for it. Mrs, Chace reports what has been done inthe colored Union at 
Southland: Union Signals taken four copies; as premiums, nineteen 
Beautiful Years, three copies ; Convention no—, seventy-five copies ; Gough 
Memorial Number, twenty-five ; Rising Wave, two; White Cross Leaflets, 
.book-marks, fifteen; Philanthropist, one copy; literature circulated, five 
hundred pages; copies of minutes, thirty. There are several copies of 
Rising Wave taken in Helena. Mrs. Chace has also received and distributed 
several large packages of literature sent from the different departments, 
mailing a good deal of it to different parts of the State. At her request 
many thousand pages of Scientific Temperance literature and sample 
pages were sent to professors as she could get their names; at least five 
hundred pages. 


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This is all I have in the way of reports. It is neediess perhaps for 
me to repeat what I have always urged upon you, the importance of keep-- 
ing well informed on all subjects pertaining to our cause, and this you can 
best do by subscribing for our national organ, The Union Signal, published 
at 161 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill; price of single copy, $1.75 per year ;. 
in clubs, $1.50; several clubs will be made up at this Convention. 


Our National Superintendent of Literature, Miss Julia Colman, 72 
Bible House, New York, always has on hand a full supply of everything: 
needful in literature work ; as also the Woman’s Temperance Publication 
Association, 161 La Salle Street, Chicago, Il. 


Respectfully submitted, 
MRS. E. H. THOMPSON. 





REPORT ONG PRESS a Vi Gite 





[The following report was premised by an interesting paper contain-- 
taining among other good things a beautiful rehearsal of the manner in 
which the author was led to engage in the work which she has so efficiently 
carried forward; her motive being, ‘‘ thereby to enccurage some sister who: 
feels her utter inability to engage in any new line of work.” The thought 
impressed on the minds of those who heard it was that to say, as she did, 
“God helping me I will’ is to utter the battle-cry of victory.—EDb. ] 


The month after my appointment was one of preparation. In 
pursuance of my duty, during the month of July, I sent a written circular’ 
letter to all the Unions, asking each Union to appoint a local superintend- 
ent of Press Work, and make that department of work a specialty, and 
enclosed a circular from our National Superintendent of Press Department 
as an aid to immediate action. The National Bulletin received each month 
from the Natfonal Superintendent containing items in regard to National 
work, and condensed Temperance matter, have been sent to Unions for 
publication in local papers These papers we believe have been exceed- 
ingly helpful to the work. Asan organization, the editors have shown us 
kind consideration and courtesy wherever we have Unions, and in some 
instances when there were no Unions, thev cordially granted space for 
Temperance which was in charge of some good woman whose heart the 
Lord had stirred up to work. From other parts of our State the old cry, 
‘“The harvest is great, but the laborers are few,’’ comes to us with 
renewed pathos and power. ‘ Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, 
that he would send forth laborers into His harvest.”’ The reports of the 
Unions though rather meager give evidence of progress and are as follows : 


WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 49 





Arkadelphia reported several months ago ‘‘that they had succeeded 
in obtaining the use of half column each in two of their city papers.” 
Mrs. Col. McMillan and Mrs. M. J. Ross as superintendents of the work. 


The Saline Courier, County paper of Benton, whose Temperance 
column is efficiently edited by Mrs. Eva Torry. 


Clarksville W. C. T. U., reported in March the appointment of Miss 
Anna Powers as Local Superintendent. Names of papers not given. 


Princeton reports through our faithful worker, Mrs. Taylor, who 
bravely holds the fort in her contributions to the County paper, the 
Fordyce Enterprise. 


Jonesboro Union reports the editor of the Jonesboro paper as 
favorable to Temperance; and Mrs. Davis with her County helper, as 
Local Superintendents. 


Van Buren Union reports three weeklies in that city were ‘all 
willing to publish any matter sent by the W. C. T. U.” Miss Carrie M. 
Hamilton, Local Superintendent. 


The Lawrence County Democrat, of Walnut Ridge, devotes a column, 
which is wisely superintended by Mrs. Wren, wife of the editor. 


The Paragould Press furnishes a column on Temperance ; Mrs. Dr. 
Scott as Loca! Superintendent. 


Little Rock reported courteous conduct on the part of its leading 
papers toward our Union. The Gazette printed the State President’s 
Address in full last year, and had printed articles sent to it. The Democrat 
was willing to publish notices; the Republican, Mr. Blackburn editor, had 
published the State Treasurer’s circular in several numbers and given ita 
kindly notice; the Ladies Southern Journal had a number of times kindly 
recognized our work, as has also The Life, of Little Rock. 


The Judsonia paper, with Mrs. Riley as Superintendent of Temper- 
ance column, utters no uncertain sonnd. 


The Beebe Argus and Arkansas Hub, of Beebe, are also open to our 
work, which has thus far been in charge of the State Superintendent of 
Press Work. It is hoped that a Local Superintendent will soon be 
appointed. The great need in this department as elsewhere is of men 
trained, and consecrated workers; women of tact as well as knowledge 
and piety. 

Russellville Democrat gives a column for Temperance matter, either 
selected or contributed, which is in charge of Mrs. Maggie Rose. 

The Rogers New Era grants space for public announcements. 

Let us have the coming year a Local Superintendent in every Union, 


who shall feel it is a desirable and important office, a psominent duty of 
which is to report; if meeting with success to report it for the help and 


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50 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 











encouragement of others; if meeting with failure, report it that more 
successful Unions may encourage and help her. Without doubt much 
valuable work has been done of which no record has been made. I am 
sure the dear sisters understand working better than reporting, and 
through the pressure of daily duties, perhaps. neglect the latter, and thus 
we are all deprived of much encouragement and inspiration. 


Trusting that the success of the past year may be greatly multiplied 
in the coming year, I am, yours for the work, 
MISS L. A. ELDRIDGE, 
Superintendent Press Dept. Ark. W. C. T. U. 


REPORT ON PRISON AND VAIMAW ORK 


At Little Rock the Superintendent of this department visited the 


as jail once a month during the last year. Two young men, members of the 


Y. M. C. A., held services there on Sundays for eight months of the year. 
The Tract Society has furnished, through these young men, two hundred 
pages of literature; the Superintendent many hundreds of pages. She 
made it her special duty to look after the women in the jail. There isa 
decided improvement in the management in the jail, but, as with all like 
institutions, there is room for more. To the State Penitentiary the Super- 
intendent has in the last year made two hundred visits; held religious and 
Temperance services ; visited and prayed with the sick and dying, and has 
done many an act of kindness for the inmates that only a mother would 
know how to do. Through the kindness of Rev. W. D. A. Matthews, 
Prison Missionary, Onargo, Ills., Mrs. Dr. Lenow of Little Rock, and 
many other kind friends, the Superintendent has given out thousands of 
pages of literature. The library has increased two hundred volumes. The 
officers have shown the greatest interest in behalf of the inmates. Eighty- 
six have signed the Temperance pledge. There is a decided change in 
many of the inmates. 


Fort Smith, through Mrs. Frank Park, reports religious services 
held once a week. The W.C. T. U. furnished $20 00 worth of literature. 
Some souls have been converted; several have signed the Temperance 
pledge; one has broken off from the opium habit. The work has been 
done under difficulties, but the Master is crowning it with success. 


Mrs. Olive Haney, of Russellville, reports that town a Prohibition 
town; therefore no work to be done because of empty jails. 


Mrs. E. B. Rhodes, of Clarksville, reports they do all they can in the 
way of literature for the ones who are confined in the Court House; they 


WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 51 

6 NE. geo ane hi Me LE A A a Ne Si 
have no jail; furnished Temperance literature for Waldron jail. 

Mrs. Atkins, of Forrest City, reports good and earnest work. A 

Prohibition city ; almost always an empty jail. | 

Pine Bluff reports plenty of work to do; is not a Prohibition city ; 

the workers have distributed literature and have religions services ; they 
are gladly welcomed by the inmates, and always urged to return. 
Mrs. Chace reports Prison Day Texts sent to Mariana jail. 


The Superintendent knows of good work being done in other 
County jails, but has no official report of it. Dear sisters, our work is 
only like fragments in the Master’s feast, but you know He said “ gather 
up the fragments;” and, if we are faithful in giving to suffering humanity 
only the broken pieces, Christ will give the increase. 

EMMA R. COLWELL. 


Pe) OPV ORK ROR REFORMED MEN 


AND SOCIAL PURITY. 





To-day we have a stronger and healthier Temperance sentiment 
than ever before; and while my work has not been for Reformed Men to 
the exclusion of all other work, yet it has had its influence. A great 
many who reformed six or eight years ago are holding out well. Others 
who have lately reformed, have been converted and have joined the 
Chureh. One young man said to me not long since: ‘Mrs. Taylor, I did 
not know that it was wrong to drink liquor before I came to your meetings, 
I was raised to drink and all around me drank.” But now he is thoroughly 
convinced and converted We still keep up our prayer-meetings, and 
monthly Temperance meetings, and our meetings are increasing in 
interest. We have a County free from saloons. I have been studying 
the law concerning Social Purity and feel satisfied that something must be 
done. I have written to some of the Presidents of the Unions and alsoa 
circular for the Rising Wave. Ido hope we can save some poor girls and 
boys, too, for there are so many traps set to catch them, 

MAK Yate TAY LOR, 
Superintendent, 


62 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
“UNION SIGNAL” REPORT. 


All the different Unions in the State have been urged twice during 
the year by card to send me as many names as possible that we might 
obtain club rates, but I received no response. When we realize the vast 
importance of the good to be accomplished by a large circulation of our 
national organ, we should make an earnest effort to reach as many homes 
as possible. Let me. urge you to so value the printed page in our homes 
that you will labor earnestly for a wider circulation of that which is for 
‘God, and Home and Native Land.” 

MRS. JULIA A. CLARK, 
Suerpintendent. 


REPORT ON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION. 


Owing to protracted family affliction I have not been able to give 
the attention to the work that its importance demands, but many friends 
have worked for the cause. These friends have been among all classes, 
especially ministers, physicians, professors, and ‘‘ White Ribboners.”’ The 
cause has been presented publicly sixty-one times; at State, District and 
County Teachers Associations, Temperance Conventions, District Confer- 
ences, and one Annual Conference; aiso privately to school boards and 
individuals, and all expressed hearty sympathy and pledge help. Those 
who have examined the ‘‘sample pages”? express their approval. One 
teacher went before the Board and expressed his wish to introduce them 
into his school One lawyer said, ‘‘ If this study had been introduced into 
schools twenty years ago, there would have been saved to the State and 
country many of her most gifted sons and millions of money,” Through 
the kindness of the National Department we received fifty copies of 
Mrs. Hunt’s report, two hundred copies of the Pennsylvania law, which 
is considered the most complete in its details, and five hundred leaflets. 
I have written forty-three letters and. twenty-five postals, and purchased 
and donated one set of the text books. 


Dear sisters, you have a right to expect that your children will 
occupy positions of usefulness and honor. To do so successfully 
they must know how to meet this problem; it isso enwrapped with every 
interest that they can not escape it if they would. They should know that 
every sin subtracts from the sum and strength of our years. They wil! 
reap as they sow, and may gather in the thorns, or rejoice in the harvest 
of a happy old age. We will get this law if we work for it; perhaps not 
this winter, although I have strong faith that we will. 

SARA Ky. HART 
Superintendent. 


WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 53 
REPORT OF JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. 


BANDS OF HOPE. 


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Southland College (Colored)... .Mem ROU SLML cerns erie keer ces 8 chai sias late a Aa 120 
Weruen (Colored) ../).... 02.65. Mem Wersiipier: -iaasas vevtivdeaodseacee 80 
Bingen (Colored ).: a. fees ce wees VE EROES Es hettenadie alm side ister ters ato niet 36 

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REPORT ON SABBATH OBSERVANCE. 


Out of thirty-one Unions to whom I have written, only two have 
responded. One asked and received assurances from their pastors that 
they would co-operate with them, and preach special sermons on that 
‘subject. I have endeavored to bring this matter forward in this part of 
the State wherever an opportunity offered, and have been assured that 
‘good results will follow. Many of our pastors in this and adjoining 
Counties are in hearty sympathy with our work, and I feel sure from 
evidences not to be mistaken that there is a growing anxiety all over the 
State in regard to this evil that has assumed such gigantic proportions in 
the last few years. MRS. C. E. GILL, 

Superintendent. 


REPORT OF WORK AMONG COLORED PEOPLE. 


When appointed to this office last August I immediately wrote Mrs. 
S. F. Chapin for instruction, she being National Superintendent of the 
Department in the South, but as she was traveling continually, I received 
no answer. After some delay I concluded to do the best I could, and here 
is my brief report: I have sent out seventy letters and one hundred 
postals, and have received in reply fifteen answers, some of them not very 


54 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 








encouraging; but when I have visited localities have found them glad to: 
have meetings more than I could give. Over twelve hundred pages of 
literature have been distributed by myself, and some by other persons. 
Thirteen temperance sermons have been given by my request and perhaps. 
some which have not been reported. I have made four trips from home, 
and held some good meetings. Forly-three temperance addresses have- 
been given. The work has been presented at two Conferences; more than 
two hundred have signed the pledge, and perhaps others. In our town, 
Hazen, all the adults signed the petition for the ‘“ three-mile law,” and 
some did good service in circulating it, and at Duvalls Bluff, and Des Are, 
where there are saloons, nearly all signed. Five societies and Bands of 
Hope organized last winter are doing well. Three Sunday-schools have 
monthly temperance addresses, and have raised $4.25 for memorials, 
leaflets, and cathechisms. As we wish to extend the principles of Tem-- 
perance and moral reform, here is a field fitted and ready, and if we do 
not occupy it the liquor men will. I feel a deep interest in these people, 
and that to neglect any opportunity for their advancement and elevation, 
would be acrime. I pray the Lord to raise up good and efficient workers. 


for this seemingly neglected department. 
Yours to help, 


O. E. CURTIS. 


ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 


OF THE WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF ARKANSAS. 


The following is the Constitution under which the W. C. T. U. of: 
Arkansas, was incorporated in May, 1885, that it might hold property and 
meet the requirements of the laws of Arkansas. 


WHEREAS, We, Mary A. Cornelius, Mary R. Field, E. H. Thompson 
and E. R. Colwell being citizens of Pulaski County, in the State of 
Arkansas, and being desirous of forming ourselves into a body politic and 
corporate, do hereby adopt and declare the following as our Articles of 
Association, with the following preamble. 


WHEREAS, Woman is the natural guardian of infancy and youth, and 
is expected to the entire extent of her power to rear sober, industrious 
and upright men for the service of all the interests of the commonwealth; 
and, 

WuereEas, The use of intoxicating liquors is the cruelest foe of all her 
efforts in this direction. Therefore, we, Christian women of Arkansas, do 
unite in the practice of total abstinence and in labor for the saving of 
inebriates, and in advocating the entire suppression of the liquor traffic, 
and that we may the more successfully prosecute this work, we adopt. the 
following articles to-wit: 


WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 55 





ARTICLE I. 


This Association shall be known by the name of ‘*The Women’s 
‘Christian Temperance Union of the State of Arkansas.” 


ARTICLE II. 


The location of the organization shall be at Little Rock, Arkansas, 
but business meetings of the corporation may be held at any other place 
in the State designated by the Executive Committee. 


ARTICLE III. 


The officers of the Association shall be a President, one Vice- 
President for each Congressional District in the State, a Recording 
‘Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary and a Treasurer, and the Associa- 
tion may provide in the By-Laws, for such additional officers and assistants 
as the body may deem best and proper. 


ARTICLE IV. 


The object of this Association is to reform the drinking classes, and 
educate the young against intoxication, to form a higher and better public 
‘sentiment in favor of sobriety and abstinence from dissipation, transforming 
by the power of Divine grace, those who are enslaved by alcohol, and 
removing the dram shop from our streets by law. 


ARTICLE V. 


The officers of the Association shall be elected annually on the 
Re tees: one eS sissieie oa, ate F's in each year by the majority vote of the 
members in attendance at such meeting, and in the event of a failure to 
elect new officers the incumbents of the preceding term shall hold over 
until their successors are elected. 


ARTICLE VI. 


The first meeting @f this Association shall be at Little Rock, Arkansas, 
PRREMEEEUOL. sie 00 toc ecw se a's L576 dc oldies ce « 1885, at which time and place 
we, the incorporators hereof, shall proceed to elect the officers herein pro- 
vided for, who shall at once assume control of the business and general 
management of said corporation. 


ARTICLE VIL. 

The officers of the corporation shall constitute an Executive Com- 
mittee, and shall draft such By-Laws for the control and government of 
the corporation in the local and internal procedure as they shall deem best 
and proper, and submit the same to the membership at a regular meeting 
of the same for approval or rejection, or change, as the said membership 


may see proper. And the said By-Laws may be changed, altered, 
amended or abolished at each annual meeting of the body. 


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ARTICLE VIII. 


The By-Laws of the corporation shall provide for the way and 
manner in which money shall be raised for the support and maintenance: 
of the body and the carrying forward of its purposes and objects. 


ARTICLE IX, 


The membership of this corporation shall consist of all the members. 
of the ‘‘The Womens Christian Temperance Union ”’ of this State, as it 
has heretofore existed in this State, who shall register their names as: 
members on the books of the corporation either in person or by authority 
duly given to the Secretary of the body; and such other persons as may 
take the obligation provided by the By-Laws of this order, and register as. 
above prescribed. 

ARTICLE X. 


The duties and obligations of all officers of this corporation shall be- 
such as may be prescribed in the By-Laws of this society. 


BY-LAWS. 


Section 1. In addition to the officers provided in the Constitution, 
there shall be a President for each County, who will be appointed by the 
Executive Committee. 

Sec. 2. The annual meeting shall be composed of the Executive: 
Committee, the State Superintendents of Departments, Chairman of Stand- 
ind Committees, State Organizer, two delegates at large from each Auxiliary 
Union, and one delegate for every five hundred paying, members, and 
County Presidents. 


Sec. 3. Any local organization of the Woman’s Christian Temper- 
ance Union may become auxiliary to the State by indorsing its Constitution. 


Src. 4. Each Union shall pay annually to the State funds an 
amount equal to twenty-five cents per member, of which fifteen cents 
shall be used for State expenses and ten cents forwarded to the National 
Treasury. Money shall also be raised for carrying forward the purposes of 
the society by the sale of stock at five dollars per share payable at the rate 
ot one dollar per year for each share, and in such other ways as the 
Executive Committee may direct, none of which shall be binding on the 
members of the organization except the payment of dues. 


WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 57 


Sec. 5. The President shall preside at all the meetings of the 
Unions, and may, through the Recording Secretary, call special meetings 
-of the Executive Committee, and shall perform all other duties usual to 
‘such office. 


Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to send 
to each District Corresponding Secretary and County President, at least 
two months before the annual meeting, a blank for her report for the 
current year. She shall then collect from such reports her own 
‘annual report. 


Sec. 7. The Recording Secretary shall also be the Secretary of the 
Executive Committee. She shall attend all meetings of the Union and 
the Executive Committee, and keep a correct record of their proceedings. 
She shall send to each member of the Executive Committee a proper 
notice of each meeting, and designate in said notice the topics which are 
especially considered at each meeting. At the first session of each annual 
meeting she shall read the minutes of the Executive Committee, since the 
last annual meeting in their proper order (subject to the approval of the 
annual meeting) and shall perform all other duties pertaining to the office. 


Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to keep accurate 
accounts of all receipts and disbursements of money, and to present a 
detailed report thereof to each annua] meeting. The fiscal year shall 
close one week previous to the annual meeting, when the books shall 
close. She shall furnish a bi-monthly report for publication in such papers 
as may become the organs of the State Union. 


Src. 9. All Standing Committees of the State, also the lady who 
may represent us in a State Temperance paper, shali be in virtue of their 
offices members of the annual meeting, with all the privileges of delegates. 


Sec. 10. The Executive Committee shall be the business committee 
of the annual meeting. 


Src. 11. All documents and announcements from the State Woman’s 
Christian Temperance Unions shall be sent to the District and County 
Presidents and Local Unions through their respective Secretaries. 


Src. 12. The expenses of the State officers (exclusive of Vice- 
Presidents) in traveling to and from the annual meetiug; also for postage 
and stationery shall be borne by the State Union. 


58 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 





FORM, OF. CONSTTUDU GiGi 


POR LH E 


Local Women’s Christian Temperance Union: 





ARTICLE I.—NAME. 


This organization shall be known as ‘‘ The Women’s Christian Tem-- 
Perance UNION AOle wae ee oe , Auxiliary to the Women’s Christian Tem-- 
perance Union, of the State of Arkansas.”’ 


ARTICLE II.—OBJECT. 


It shall be the object ot this organization to plan and carry forward 
measures which will result, with the blessing of God, in the suppression of 
intemperance in our midst, and the prohibition of the liquor traffic. ; 


ARTICLE III.—MEMBERSHIP. 


Any woman may become a member of this organization by signing 
the Constitution, pledging herself to do all in her power for the advance-- 
ment of the Temperance cause, and by the payment of one cent per week,. 
or fifty cents per year into the treasury. She shall also subscribe to the 
following pledge: ‘‘ I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain 
from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine and cider,. 
and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic: 
in the same. 


Gentlemen become honorary members by the payment of one: 


dollar a year. 
ARTICLE 1V.—OFFICERS. 


The officers of this organization shall be a President, a Vice-Presi-- 
dent from each Church, a Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary 
and Treasurer, who shall constitute an Executive Committee. 


ARTICLE V.—DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS. 


Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all 
meetings of the organization and supervise its general interests; and the 
President, with any three members of the Union, may call special meetings ; 
due notice being given to the members. she 

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WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 59 








Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of each Vice-President to preside in her 
turn in the absence of the President, and to enlist the women of her own 
Church in the work. 


Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to con- 
duct the correspondence of the organization, and to report to the Corre- 
sponding Secretary of the State Union quarterly (having first submitted 
her report to the local organization), giving such items of general interest 
as will enable the State Secretary to judge correctly of the condition of the 
organization. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a 
record of the proceedings of the organization and notify the public of its 
meetings. 


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Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to collect the one cent 
per week or fifty cents per year membership dues, and she shall also hold 
all moneys collected for the use of the organization, paying bills on order of 
the President and Secretary, keeping an exact book account and making a 
quarterly report of the same. 


SUPERINTENDENTS. 

If the demands of the work justify it, there shall be the following 
Superintendents: On Finance, Public Meetings, Recruiting New Mem- 
bers, Juvenile Work, Sunday School Work, Young Woman’s Work, 
Scientific Instruction, Temperance Literature, Obtaining Subscribers for 
The Union Signal, Influencing the Press, Temperance Bible Readings, 
Evangelistic Work, Reading Rooms, Prison and Jail Work, Unfermented 
Wine, Reform Work. 

MEETINGS. 

Meetings shall be held weekly. 


Public prayer and conference meetings shall be held as often as the 
interests of the Union demand; a business meeting of the society once a 
month. The Executive and other committees shall meet as often as may 
be deemed advisable. If possible, a mass meeting shall be held at least 
once quarterly. 

ARTICLE VI—TIME OF MEBRTING. 

The meetings of this organization shall be held on — of each 
month, and shall be conducted in such a manner as the Executive 
Committee shall from time to time determine. 


ARTICLE VII—ANNUAL MEETINGS, 
The annual meeting shall be held on the ——- day of 
18—, at which time the officers shall be elected for the ensuing year. 


ARTICLE VIII. 
Any Article of this Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds 
vote of the members present at any regular meeting, notice of such amend- 
ment having been given in writing at a previous regular meeting. 















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60 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 


COUNTY CONST Ree 


ARTICLE I. 
This organization shall be known as the Women’s Christian Temper- 
ance Union of ——-—— County. 
ARTICLE II. 
The object of this Union shall be to plan and carry forward 
measures which, with the blessing of God, shall result in furthering the 
cause of Temperance in the county. 


ARTICLE III. 

The officers of this Union shall be a President, one Vice-President 
from every Local Union, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall constitute an 
Executive Committee. 

ARTICLE IV. 


The County President, being Vice-President for the State from that 
County, shall be elected at County Convention and her election, if suitable, 
ratified at next State meeting, after which she shall assume the duties of 
her office and exercise the same till her successor has been appointed. 

ARTICLE V. 


The Vice-Presidents shall prosecute the work in the townships. 


ARTICLE VI. 


Local Unions may become auxiliary to this Union by payment of 
5 cents per member, annually into the treasury. 


Any person may become an honorary member by signing the total 
abstainance pledge and the payment of one dollar into the treasury. 


ARTICLE VII. 


The time and place of Annual Meeting may be determined by the 
Executive Committee. 


ARTICLE VIII. 


This Constitution may be amended at any Annual Meeting by two- 
thirds vote of members present. 





